Zen Teaching
Training and Background
Subhana Barzaghi has practiced Buddhist meditation for thirty years and is a qualified teacher in two Buddhist traditions: Vipassana Insight Meditation tradition and Zen Buddhist tradition.
She received transmission as a “Roshi” (Zen master) in 1996 from her teachers John Tarrant Roshi and Robert Aitken Roshi. Subhana teaches intensive Zen & Vipassana retreats in India, Australia and New Zealand and conducts workshops in Sydney.
Subhana is the resident teacher of the Sydney Zen Centre and founder of Kuan Yin Zen Centre in Lismore.
Sydney Zen Centre Teaching
Subhana is the resident teacher of the SZC.
Subhana teaches zazen and offers interviews for SZC members every Monday night from 7pm – 9pm.
For details of other activities contact SZC 251 Young St. Anndandale. Tel:9660-2993 or visit their website.
Zen Retreats
Easter Sesshin, Sydney Zen Centre
2—9 April 2010: NSW
Teacher: Subhana & Paul Maloney
Venue: Kodo-ji Temple of the Ancient Ground, S.Z.C. Retreat Centre, Gorricks Run, via St. Albans
Enquiries: SZC, tel: (02) 9660-2993, Sydney Zen Centre
Note: Transmission Ceremony for Paul Maloney & Sexton Bourke on the 10 April.
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Dharma Study Program, NSW
11—16 June 2010: NSW
Teacher: Subhana & Patrick Kearney
Venue: Kodo-ji Temple of the Ancient Ground, S.Z.C. Retreat Centre, Gorricks Run, via St. Albans
Enquiries: Sydney Zen Centre (02) 9660-2993
Mountains & Rivers Sesshin Sesshin, Victoria
7 day walking retreat – Melbourne Zen Group
September/October: Victoria
Teacher: Subhana
Venue: Camping along the Great Ocean Road, Victoria
Enquiries: Peter Wong, Melbourne Zen Group
Summer Rohatsu Sesshin, Victoria
3—10 December 2010: Victoria
Teacher: Subhana
Venue: Camp Adekate, Dean, Victoria
Enquiries: Melbourne Zen Group
All photos © Robert Scott-Mitchell 2008